OK, so I'm relaxing and watching an episode of South Park, a show that ridicules the ridiculous. Sometimes I think they make shit up, but it always turns out to be something that actually is happening. For example, when I saw the Jonas Brothers episode, I was like, there's no way that Disney is spraying metaphoric cum on the faces and chests of pre-teen and early teen girls. Turns out I was wrong.

Well, in this episode, they show an animate rendering of something called "Honey Boo Boo". So I search YouTube to find out what that is.

How the hell is this crap legal? It's borderline child abuse. No 6-year-old should be even thinking about money, nonetheless narcissistically strutting her fat ass for pedo-chubby-chasers. Personally, I think that all form of childhood beauty pageants are a form of child abuse and probably leaves psychological scars.

One of the things that really disgusts me about this is that it's on TLC, a channel that used to be called The Learning Channel and was one of the best channels on television, but now is the most despicable trashy "Ugly American" network. Oh, how it has fallen. Whoever is responsible for that should be castrated, shot, and slowly beheaded.

Ah but it is educational...
It's the Liberal media showing how the White guy is stupid and does stupid stuff.
Like catching catfish with their bare hands, hoarding garbage in their house piled all the way to the roof, red neck toddler trailer trash queens, Dumb ass 20 somethings selling a priceless heirloom that has been in their family since the 1800's to a pawn shop for a few hundred, so his wife can see Katy Perry.

All of those shows they are educational, it is educating America why America can't service 4 more years of Obama, when this is the way his propaganda ministry thinks of the people he is now with hat in hand expecting to vote for HIS sorry Ass.

Not everything is political or the great liberal conspiracy. Sometimes it is just-follow the money trail. These shows give ratings ,as does Jerry Springer. I must confess, I do like some Jerry Springer from time to time and maury too. Maury is just - I have no words. Those women come up to the stage and say they believe that they know 110% that the guy is their baby daddy and then the DNA proves them wrong and they act all emotional and cry-theater at its most absurd!! But fun and reality. Ratings is what determines a show stays or not.

All of those shows they are educational, it is educating America why America can't service 4 more years of Obama, when this is the way his propaganda ministry thinks of the people he is now with hat in hand expecting to vote for HIS sorry Ass.

Look, I've criticized Obama far more than any right winger. The thing is, my criticism is based on reality, not fantasy.

just turn the damn thing off! throw it out!
save money!
the biggest joke is that you pay for the privilege to watch that crap, pbs included!
just get rid of the damn idiot box for good.
you don’t need it.
it needs you.
when the digital changeover happened, we just said no thanks.
what a relief to not have the thing blasting drivel shit in the living room anymore!

I'm about ready to go along with coriacci and unsubscribe to cable. The kids can watch Netflix, they mostly do anyway and the shows they like are cute and/or educational. I like me some walking dead and dexter, but I don't have to watch it, and I'd be far more productive without it. Maybe I'd pay more attention to the wife too, and thus get more frequent booty. She's definitely a milf. There, that's convinced me!

Well for what it's worth, I've never ever heard a Republican say anything remotely close to suggesting such oppression. But it's becoming a recurring theme among Liberals these days. That is why when Libs want to pin their name on anything with "Parenthood" in it, it makes the rest of the Nation want to run for the nearest exit. In spite of the intentions behind it.

Scary thing is that the people most likely to have kids--and most likely to have the most kids--are people living in Honey Boo Boo country and The Ghetto. Intelligent, creative people tend more and more to have no/fewer children. The implications are staggering.

Well for what it's worth, I've never ever heard a Republican say anything remotely close to suggesting such oppression.

Hmmmm...Really?

Would you say that the deportation, torture and/or jailing of political opponents would be more oppressive? Because on this very board it is advocated (and not tongue-in-cheek like Dan's "oppressive" comment) by a "Republican" on this thread.

Or if that is not enough for you, how about the wholesale immediate executions of "most" of the people in prison, as advocated by a "Republican" here.

just turn the damn thing off! throw it out!
save money!
the biggest joke is that you pay for the privilege to watch that crap, pbs included!
just get rid of the damn idiot box for good.
you don’t need it.
it needs you.
when the digital changeover happened, we just said no thanks.
what a relief to not have the thing blasting drivel shit in the living room anymore!

Moving from one house into another about 3 years ago I warned my children (18, 13, 5) that I was not going to subscribe to any type of television service. Internet, yes, but tv - no.

About a month after moving my then 13 year-old came to me and said "Mom, I don't really miss television." I considered that a victory.

Fast forward 3+ years and my children spend time reading, socializing, being active, and using their imagination. Our lives do not revolve around parking our @sses on the couch at a certain time because we have to numb our minds with some pseudo-celebrity drivel. My children do not come to me begging for the latest doodad featured in a commercial or expecting a party such as shown on My Super Sweet 16. When we want to watch something, one of us will propose a “movie night” and we’ll make a conscious decision to pop some popcorn, gather in the TV room, and hang out while watching an agreed upon movie or a few episodes of a Netflix show.

A much better way of life. And I get to spend the money I save on manicures and massages, woo hoo!

When we want to watch something, one of us will propose a “movie night” and we’ll make a conscious decision to pop some popcorn, gather in the TV room, and hang out while watching an agreed upon movie or a few episodes of a Netflix show.

I am curious how often you end up having "movie" nights.

We don't have any TV service either, but usually end up watching plenty of Netflix. The kids maybe about 4-8 hours a week, but the adults much more (after the kids are in bed).

I watch occasional Netflix (about 6 hours per month) on any number of devices, usually not the TV, though. I find I'm more inclined to do this on my tablet while lying by the pool if I don't have a book to read :-)

My kids will watch about 6 - 8 hours of Netflix per week, including weekends, so it's not too bad. The thing I like the most is that we've cut the tether. I'm not ignoring things that I need to get done in order to sit down to my favorite addiction at a specific time. Also, if my daughter needs my time or attention for any reason I give it to her instead of relegating her needs to commercials. Cuz Netflix is always available and for cheap, too!

Also, many times we watch one of those stunning, mind-boggling "Planet Earth" movies that are educational and encourage conversation and thought. I enjoy that my kids talk with me about them for days afterward, asking questions and reflecting on what we watched. We wouldn't be relating that way if we were watching the Kardashians on tv. Then my daughters would be asking questions that I wouldn't want to answer, ha!

When we want to watch something, one of us will propose a “movie night” and we’ll make a conscious decision to pop some popcorn, gather in the TV room, and hang out while watching an agreed upon movie or a few episodes of a Netflix show.

I am curious how often you end up having "movie" nights.

We don't have any TV service either, but usually end up watching plenty of Netflix. The kids maybe about 4-8 hours a week, but the adults much more (after the kids are in bed).

Scary thing is that the people most likely to have kids--and most likely to have the most kids--are people living in Honey Boo Boo country and The Ghetto. Intelligent, creative people tend more and more to have no/fewer children. The implications are staggering.

Hey, the English used to say stuff like that about the Irish all the time, especially while they were exporting large quantities of food from Ireland during the famine. Kind of justified taking their food while they were dying.

So how did it turn out in the end? Yes, the Irish proliferated in America, which has about 40 million people of Irish descent (like me) from about 1 million Irish immigrants. Irish American birth rates plummeted as the women became more educated and less religious. My dad was the last of eight kids. I'm one of four. I have two kids myself. And without an English aristocracy milking and shearing them like animals, the Irish here did better and better, till now they are almost the very definition of mainstream Americans, and in fact do a little better on average than most Americans.

If you want iront, note that "Idiocracy" star Luke Wilson is himself Irish-American:

The Republic of Ireland itself also recovered from the famine and went on eventually become independent and then one of the most prosperous countries in Europe, even with its current finanical problems. The old English landlords were mostly dispossesed and the land given to native people.

But in Northern Ireland, where the wealthy citizens of invading English origin still have utter contempt for the native people and still demand unearned land rents from them, the Irish remain the underclass.

octomom has gone to rehab, a luxury she can afford due to a dvd she made that features her masturbating. Lindsay Lohan's father, the hot mess patriarch of a hot mess family with tons o' addiction and super bizarre fame whore behaviors, is claiming that he helped to convice the freak to go to rehab.

Welcome to the sewer pipe of media owned, written, produced and broadcast primarily from New York and Los Angeles.

Too bad that show is about hicks from the rural Georgia. "Baby Pageants" are far, far more popular in fly-over country than they are on the Coasts. These things happen in West Virginia but seldom in Boston. Remember that crazy witch ex-model from WV who killed her kid and tried to blame it on terrorists? Her child was a "Baby Pageant" contestant, too.

It might be produced in LA and NY, but the "baby pageant" crap originated in Southern Culture.